Honoring Civil Rights

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - celebrate with us!

Stop by Miller Library’s interior display cases to view our permanent semester display of compelling photos and books from the most important era in U.S. history.

“To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

To learn more about the CivilRights Act of 1964 visit our display - you are welcome to check out the material in our cases. Or, learn more by heading to some of these outstanding online resources:

Visit the Library of Congress Civil Rights Act: A Long Struggle to Freedom online exhibit.

Related Stories

Monday, November 11, is Veterans Day. Here at Washington College, we want to commemorate and honor the day by inviting you to get to know some of our veterans, both alumni and current students. You can read their stories here.

Monday, November 11, is Veterans Day. Here at Washington College, we want to commemorate and honor the day by inviting you to get to know some of our veterans, both alumni and current students. You can read their stories here.

Through the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience’s StoryQuest project, Washington College students are spending part of their summer learning firsthand about Kent County’s complex and unwritten Civil Rights-era history.